Cosmology /
Steven Weinberg.
- Oxford University Press, c2008.
- xvii, 593 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The Expansion of the Universe -- The Cosmic Microwave Radiation Background -- The Early Universe -- Inflation -- General Theory of Small Fluctuations -- Evolution of Cosmological Fluctuations -- Anisotropies in the Microwave Sky -- The Growth of Structure -- Gravitational Lenses -- Inflation as the Origin of Cosmological Fluctuations -- Some Useful Numbers -- Review of General Relativity -- Energy Transfer between Radiation and Electrons -- The Ergodic Theorem -- Gaussian Distributions -- Newtonian Cosmology -- Photon Polarization -- The Relativistic Boltzmann Equation. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H.